I know for me when I mess around with the Komet in BoP, no one can touch me. It's the ultimate BnZ'er. Even if they can out turn me (which they can't -- for some reason I'm able to out turn even an La-7 in that thing) I can blast literally straight up in the air and away from anyone. Not so much with the 262 but I'm sure I could do the same in an F-16. So the argument of prop planes winning against modern fighters seems a little improbable.
I've also thought about how prop planes would've developed if jet and rocket engines never came to light.
Did anyone play the game Crimson Skies? It was actually kind of fun. But it took place in some fictional 1930s alternate reality where "air pirates" ruled the skies. Total science fiction, but there was some creative aircraft, for sure.
Some of the modern era prop planes are capable of some crazy acrobatics. It would be quite a sight to see in a dogfight.
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